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Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays GENERAL INFORMATION LOCAL, STATE & REGION DESCHUTES COUNTY COVID-19 data for Thursday, May 20: Deschutes County cases: 9,311 (42 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 77 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 1,161 (8 new cases) Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 2,240 (5 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 37 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 197,356 (603 new cases) Oregon deaths: 2,606 (5 new deaths) COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 45 (7 in ICU) 129 new cases 90 new cases 120 7-day average 110 103 new cases (April 23) 100 (Nov. 27) 90 74 new cases 80 (April 10) 50 new cases 70 60 50 (Nov. 14) (July 16) 40 *State data unavailable for Jan. 31 31 new cases (Oct. 31) 16 new cases 30 (Sept. 19) 9 new cases EMAIL (Jan. 1) (Feb. 17) 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. bulletin@bendbulletin.com 130 (April 29) 108 new cases 47 new cases 28 new cases ONLINE BULLETIN GRAPHIC 125 new cases (Dec. 4) Vaccines are available. Find a list of vaccination sites and other information about the COVID-19 vaccines online: centraloregoncovidvaccine.com If you have questions, call 541-382-4321. 541-382-1811 www.bendbulletin.com SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY, DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES New COVID-19 cases per day 20 (May 20) 1st case 10 (March 11) March 2020 April May June July August September October November December January 2021 February March April May AFTER HOURS Newsroom ................................541-383-0348 Circulation ................................541-385-5800 NEWSROOM EMAIL Business ........business@bendbulletin.com City Desk .............news@bendbulletin.com Features.................................................................. communitylife@bendbulletin.com Sports ................. sports@bendbulletin.com NEWSROOM FAX 541-385-5804 OUR ADDRESS Street .............. 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive Suite 200 Bend, OR 97702 Mailing ........... P.O. Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 B ADMINISTRATION CENTRAL OREGON Teachers, school worker get state honors BY JACKSON HOGAN The Bulletin Two Central Oregon teachers re- ceived regional teacher of the year awards Thursday morning, making them finalists for the 2022 Oregon Teacher of the Year. And a grounds maintenance worker for Bend-La Pine Schools was named the top classified employee in Oregon that same day. Steve Wetherald, a graduation coach at Bend High School, was named the High Desert Regional Teacher of the Year at a ceremony Thursday morning in his school. Before moving to graduation coach- ing this school year, Wetherald spent Wetherald Hanson Plant 20 years as a special education teacher at Bend High School and Pilot Butte Middle School. He is also a graduate of Bend High , class of 1988. “It’s a strange feeling, but it does feel really good,” Wetherald said of winning the award. Jill Plant, a music teacher at the Warm Springs K-8 Acad- emy, was named the Jefferson County Regional Teacher of the Year, according to an Ore- gon Department of Education press release. Wetherald and Plant re- ceived $500 along with their awards and are among 16 final- ists for the 2022 Oregon Teacher of the Year. That educator will meet President Joe Biden, along with the 49 other state- wide teachers of the year. If he gets to speak with Biden, Wetherald said he’d ask the president to fully fund special education. Meanwhile, Brian Hanson, mem- ber of Bend-La Pine Schools’ outdoor crew, was named employee of the year Thursday afternoon by the Oregon School Employees Association, which is the statewide union for classified, non- teaching school staff. Hanson, who is also the president of the local classified union, has worked school grounds for Bend-La Pine for six years, according to a school district press release. Before then, he was an educational assistant in special education classes for five years in Bend-La Pine, the release stated. Reporter: 541-617-7854, jhogan@bendbulletin.com Publisher Heidi Wright ..............................541-383-0341 Editor Gerry O’Brien .............................541-633-2166 LOCAL BRIEFING DEPARTMENT HEADS Advertising Steve Rosen ................................541-383-0370 Circulation/Operations Jeremy Feldman ......................541-617-7830 Finance Anthony Georger ....................541-383-0324 Human Resources ................541-383-0340 TALK TO AN EDITOR City Julie Johnson ...................541-383-0367 Business, Features, GO! 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Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 Phone ......................................... 541-617-7829 CORRECTIONS Wilderness permits available Friday night group can have up to 12 people. Central Cascades Wilder- ness Permits for the Deschutes and Willamette national forests will be available Friday. Starting at 7 a.m. , people will be able to reserve permits within a seven-day window. Throughout the season, per- mits will become available for trips starting in seven days. For example, a permit to hike on July 8 would become available July 1. For multiday, overnight trips, only the start date of a trip needs to be within the seven days. The wilderness permit sys- tem will remain in place until Sept. 24. The permits are required for all overnight use in the Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, and Three Sisters wilderness areas, according to the U.S. Forest Service. All reservations must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling 877-444-6777 or 877-833-6777. There is a $1 processing charge for day-use permits per person and a $6 process- ing charge for overnight-use permits per group. An over- Bend Park and Rec eases mask requirements The Bend Park & Recreation District has announced new guidelines for wearing masks at its parks and facilities based on new guidelines from the Oregon Health Authority. Changes, which take effect Friday, include the following: Outdoor activities: Face coverings will not be required for outdoor activities, includ- ing park district youth and adult sports programs, outdoor swimming and roller skat- ing and when in parks and on trails. Indoor activities: Face cov- erings will no longer be re- quired indoors if fully vacci- nated and verified by staff at recreation facilities. If patrons are unvaccinated or unable to verify vaccination, they must wear a mask while indoors. Patrons to facilities are asked to bring a vaccination card, a copy or digital photo will work, and staff will provide a one- time vaccine verification pro- cess to patrons with household accounts. All indoor youth activities still require masks. Large out- door gatherings or events re- serving space on park district property may require masks. Face coverings are no lon- ger required for parks and trails. However, the Oregon Health Authority recommends individuals who are unvacci- nated or are at higher risk for COVID-19 continue to wear a face covering when at crowded outdoor areas. in a written statement. “We hope that these funds can help to ease the financial challenges prompted by our most recent shutdowns and capacity limits.” In Deschutes County, the Central Oregon Intergovern- mental Council will administer the grants. Grant funds will be made available in all 15 counties that were moved to extreme risk in April, with a total of $20 mil- lion in funding made available by the state, according to the county. Businesses selected to re- ceive funds will get checks in late June. — Bulletin staff reports Located in Downtown Bend $1.3M available in relief funds to businesses Deschutes County is con- tributing $1.3 million in relief funds to businesses that were directly impacted by operating under COVID-19 extreme risk guidelines the week of April 30, according to the county. Businesses can apply for the relief funds starting at noon Friday. Program eligibility in- formation can be found at www.deschutes.org/covidrelief. “We know that this past year has been absolutely devastat- ing for so many of our local businesses,” Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair said is Central Oregon’s foremost wine bar/shop. 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The Bulletin retains ownership and copyright protection of all staff-prepared news copy, advertising copy and news or ad illustrations. They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. Fake, stolen vaccination cards are proliferating BY DOUGLAS PERRY The Oregonian Oregon announced Tues- day that fully vaccinated peo- ple can go maskless in public indoor spaces, but only with proof that they’ve been inocu- lated against COVID-19. Some other states are considering similar approaches as they fully reopen their economies. Anticipation of this devel- opment is surely one of the reasons fake vaccination cards have been selling briskly on eBay, Etsy and other internet sites for weeks. “We are seeing these vac- cination cards being sold on many social-media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even TikTok,” FBI Special Agent Jeanette Harper said last month. An official vaccination card, which is a 3- by-4-inch piece of common heavy-stock paper with straightforward printing on it, is relatively easy to fraud- ulently reproduce. Selling (or buying) fake vaccination cards could result in a prison sen- tence of up to five years, as well as a fine, the FBI says. Legitimate vaccination cards also are being stolen. Police in Nassau County, New York, this week arrested a pharmacy em- ployee for stealing more than 50 blank vaccination cards, Forbes reports. Zachary Honig, 21, told police he was going to “share them with family members and friends, so that they could go into venues and possibly even use them at schools.” There have been a handful of similar arrests in other states in recent weeks. This thriving trade in fake and stolen vaccination cards could make Oregon’s new COVID-19 policy difficult for entertainment venues, retailers and eateries. 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